Plant Controller - English Speaking (1 Year Contract)

More than just a recruitment company. At PRTR, we have been a part of our customer's success for 30 years as their total HR solutions partner. With 550 dedicated professionals and over 15,000 outsourced staff, we will continue to carry out our mission to develop a better career, a better life, and a better society, and thrive to become the No.1 people solutions organization in Southeast Asia.

Responsibilities:

Monthly Controlling & Reporting:

• Perform financial month-end closing activities, ensuring accuracy and timely completion.
• Prepare monthly Overhead, Production, and Sales reports, including key financial and operational performance indicators.
• Prepare monthly cost variance analyses, comparing actual results against budget and target costs for materials and processing.
• Coordinate the monthly preparation of the full-year Production Outlook and financial forecasts.
• Prepare monthly plant reporting packages for Regional Management, Product Lines, and Headquarters.
• Ensure all Group reporting requirements are completed accurately and submitted within established deadlines.
• Monitor key financial performance indicators, identify significant variances, and highlight key issues and trends to management.
• Provide financial analysis and insights to support management decision-making and improve plant financial performance.

Planning:

• Support the preparation of annual budgets and periodic forecasts for the legal entity, covering Production, Overhead, and Capital Investment (CAPEX) activities.
• Prepare financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate business options, risks, and potential financial impacts.
• Provide financial insights and recommendations to support management decision-making and business planning.

Costing:

• Prepare annual tariffs for product cost calculations and establish internal labour hourly rates.
• Review and validate master data and product costing for new materials prior to release.
• Analyse and evaluate Schaeffler cost values for SMT products, identifying cost variances and areas requiring further review.
• Ensure product costing data is accurate, consistent, and aligned with internal costing standards and requirements.

Irregular / Ad-hoc:

• Support the development of cost improvement initiatives and provide recommendations to internal business partners.
• Manage Project Controlling activities in SAP, ensuring accurate cost tracking, monitoring, and reporting.
• Maintain SMT Cost Centre and Project Centre structures, ensuring compliance with Thai statutory requirements and Schaeffler Group reporting standards.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure accurate financial data and effective cost control across projects and cost centres.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Risk Management in Thailand:

• Investigate and analyse reported risks, consolidating them into a comprehensive Legal Entity (LE) risk portfolio to support discussions and decision-making by local Managing Directors.
• Monitor compliance with established risk management standards across the Legal Entity to ensure a consistent and effective Risk Management (RM) framework is maintained.
• Support the continuous improvement of the Risk Management system, including its content, structure, methodologies, processes, and reporting practices.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to strengthen risk identification, assessment, monitoring, and mitigation across the organisation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Economics or Engineering
• Work experience in a multinational manufacturing company
• Over 2 years work experience in Controlling or Financial Analysis
• Knowledge in product costing (standard costing)
• Strong analytical skills and analytical interest, attention to details
• Good command of English, able to communicate & coordinate with all management levels
• Advanced Excel skills are a must
• Experience in SAP
• Ability to learn fast, capable of working under pressure, proactive
• Mature, with the will to improve things